Treasure Boom Off Florida Coast Prompts State Salvage Rules
Archaeologists say sunken ships near Fort Pierce reveal a rich cargo era with cargo manifests often handwritten and some wrecks yielding more gold than listed. Florida officials outline salvage permits, with 75 percent to salvors and 25 percent to museums, while Cockrell notes pollution of time capsules and a history of smuggling and tax avoidance among pirates and conquistadors.
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Sonny” Cockrell
Marine Archaeology Office
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Counterfeit $7,000 Found On Babylon Riverbank
A boy delivered seven thousand dollars in counterfeit twenty dollar notes to his mother after they were scattered from a car near the Capitee Bridge. Patrolmen say up to seventy thousand dollars in phony bills were turned in by Friday evening.
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UPI
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Robert Smith
Capitee Bridge
US Treasury
Alia of Jordan Marries Hussein in Christmas Wedding
Alia Beshir Toukan, daughter of Jordan’s ambassador to Cairo, becomes King Hussein's bride in a Christmas Eve ceremony. The new queen, fluent in Arabic English and Italian, adjusts to royal life while maintaining her name with friends, and lives at the Guest Palace in Amman alongside expectations of public service.
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Jordan
Alia
Hussein
Victoria College
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Egypt
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Cairo
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United Nations
New York
Eh Coh
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Ava
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Mayor’s Stolen Lincoln Found Abandoned And Burned
The 1973 Lincoln Continental used by Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk was found abandoned and on fire Thursday night, a day after it was stolen. Detective James McHugh said he was shocked when he returned to the car after a restaurant stop. The vehicle, valued at about $3,000, contained coins and communications gear and was destroyed.
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Cleveland
UPI
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Ralph J. Perk
Weekend Revels in California mining camps celebrate life
The piece chronicles 1850s mining towns where Saturdays and Sundays overflow with lights, gambling, grand tables, music, and Mexican and Native dances. It details monte games, casual saloons, fast talkers, bullfights on Sundays, and a bustling street culture framed by Perkins’ journal.
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Perkins
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Monte
Mexico
Yankees
HacMission Indisus
Starlel Bardanas
Bulgarian designer Hansen to design San Jose arena
UPI reports F and Dan adjieva Hansen, 32, a Bulgarian, is named designer of a $15 million sports arena planned in San Jose California. Pregnant at eight months, she declined to present the plan personally, leaving the task to others. The piece notes her international career and hopes to design child care centers to boost women's involvement.
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UPI
San Jose
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Danadjieva Hansen
0.S
Bulgaria
Sophia
Lie State Engineering University
Vienna
Austria
Paris
Ant
Conter
French West Indies
United States
Seward
Alaska
Building Systems Development, Inc
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